Talk:Kryten

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Opinion?

"Once the personal servant of three attractive female crew members of the Nova 5," - Isn't that an opinion...? --172.143.184.183 12:36, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia

The first entry in trivia says, "This character has a niche in science-fiction history: It is believed that this was the first robot/android ever to give a human the finger." If I recall correctly, one of the Skutters did this in an episode Before Kryten appears. Tiberius47 08:25, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Correct, that was in Balance of Power from Series 1, when the skutter flicks the V at Rimmer. Andymarczak 10:34, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So does that come under the category of giving Rimmer the Finger? if so, I think the trivia note shoulda be moved to that episode. Tiberius47 02:38, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No no, giving a V sign and giving "the finger" are two different gestures which mean two different things. In any case it's a fairly spurious claim - why not say "the first robot/android to wear a toupee"? Pointless. 86.140.81.159 (talk) 17:46, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is a previous example of a robot (not an android, and not autonomous) making this gesture towards a human. Near the begining of the movie Short Circuit, 1986, a robot arm is playing the piano. Steve Guttenberg's character commands it to give the finger to the character played by Austin Pendleton. This scene is usually edited from the TV versions, but is present in the DVD. Jtree178 (talk) 23:58, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Accent

They tried a Swedish and American accent? What exactly is an American accent? That's like saying they tried a Eurasian accent; it doesn't really tell you anything. --77.99.30.226 14:36, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure the same could be said for "the Swedish accent" if you wanted to be pedantic... 86.140.81.159 (talk) 17:50, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm...

For some reason, the picture we have in the infobox looks very different from the Kryten we know. He just looks a little different somehow. Machine758 (talk) 21:25, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Buck Rogers

There's a robot in Buck Rogers called Kryten. I've always wondered if this was a nod by the Red Dwarf writers. Beanhead McGinty (talk) 16:10, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No robots and convincing Grant

This is discussed in Carpool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njugoYqKL6o , though I'm not sure how it should be cited.

Episode description (from youtube): Co-creator and writer on Red Dwarf, known to the cast as Dr Love, the fantastic Rob Grant gets a lift to the take away.

About show (from youtube): Carpool is an online show hosted by Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge, Fully Charged), who gives a wide variety of passengers a lift in a hybrid or electric car and they talk. It's as simple as that. [...]

kgoetz (talk) 09:14, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]